A native of Belarus, Polina Khatsko has established herself both as an active
performer and a dedicated teacher. Some of her accomplishments include the
performance and recording of complete works for cello and piano by Beethoven
with Anthony Elliott, as well as being a key participant in the acclaimed "Complete
Solo Piano Works by Chopin" project organized by the studio of Arthur Greene.
While in Belarus, Mrs. Khatsko received her musical training at the Belarussian Music
Lyceum and the Belarussian State Academy of Music under the tutelage of
Ariadna Guzhalovskaya and Vladimir Doulov. In 1999, she was invited by James
Cook to study with him at the University of Nebraska, Kearney, with generous
support of the Elaine Wallace House Memorial Scholarship. Following that, Mrs.
Khatsko earned her Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the University of Michigan
as a student of Arthur Greene. During the years of studies she regularly appeared
with faculty artists and ensembles, which allowed her to indulge in an enduring
love of chamber music.
Mrs. Khatsko has served on the piano faculty of the Schoolcraft College and the
University of Michigan preparatory department. As a collaborative pianist, she has
worked for the string department of the University of Michigan School of Music,
appeared as an annual staff accompanist for the prestigious Sphinx International
Competition and was on the Collaborative Piano faculty of the International Music
Academy in Pilsen, Czech Republic and the Cambridge International String
Academy in Cambridge, U.K. Currently, she is Adjunct Instructor of Piano at the
University of Northern Iowa.
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Saturday Jan. 31, 2015 at 1:30 pm
Davis Hall, Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center
Les Folies d'Espagne
Marin Marais
Life Cycle of the Oboist
Escales
Jacques Ibert
Blues
Ronald Roseman
Tableau
Gilles Silvestrini
Danza Gaya
Madeleine Dring
Sonata for Oboe and Piano
Sonata, op. 2, no. 8
I. Andante
II. Allegro
Niggun
Konzertstuck, op. 2
Camille Saint-Saëns
G. F. Handel (trans. H. Beyer)
Philippe Hersant
Franz Berwald
Jan Eberle is Professor of Oboe at the Michigan State University College of
Music. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in oboe performance
and a Certificate of Special Study from the Curtis Institute of Music. For 18
years, Eberle held the position of principal oboe in the Fort Worth
Symphony. She has been a guest principal oboist with the Detroit,
Houston, Minnesota, and North Carolina Symphonies, and has served as
assistant principal oboe in the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has been a
featured recitalist and concerto soloist throughout the United States, and
was a winner of the Coleman International Chamber Music Competition
Nadie di Kibort Award and the Southbay Chamber Music Competition.
Eberle spends her summers in New York as principal oboe of the
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and instructor at the Chautauqua
School of Music.
Amy Pollard is assistant professor of bassoon at the Hugh Hodgson School
of Music at the University of Georgia. She formerly served as lecturer of
bassoon at Baylor University and has also been on faculty at the University
of Dayton and the Cincinnati School for the Creative and Performing Arts.
During the summer she has been on the faculty of the Interlochen Arts
Center Advanced Bassoon Institute. She is currently second bassoonist
with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and has performed with the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, the Virginia
Symphony, Symphony Orchestra Augusta, the Kentucky Symphony
Orchestra, and the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
Pollard has performed as a soloist with the University of Georgia Wind
Ensemble and Wind Symphony as well as with the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music Chamber Players. An avid chamber
musician, she has performed at venues throughout the United States and
also in Ireland, Belgium, and Argentina with such groups as the Georgia
Woodwind Quintet, the Baylor University Woodwind Quintet, the Dayton
Philharmonic Orchestra Woodwind Quintet, and the University of
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Chamber Players. Her bassoonpercussion duo, Col Legno, has performed recitals and presented master
classes at numerous venues throughout the country.
Pollard received her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees
from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a
Bachelor of Music degree from Louisiana State University.
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